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The 40th Galway International Arts Festival came to a close last Sunday evening following what has been the biggest festival to date, which enjoyed record-breaking box office and attendance figures.

The 40th Galway International Arts Festival came to a close last Sunday evening following what has been the biggest festival to date, enjoying record-breaking box office and attendance figures.

Summer means blockbuster movies and there is a great line up of entertainment at Mayo Movie World at the minute.

One hundred years ago there were a series of truly terrible battles on the Western Front which were watched anxiously in Ireland as elsewhere. On June 7, near the Belgian village of Messines, the Allied army won a substantial victory. It gave hope, which turned out to be tragically false, that perhaps this was the beginning of the end of the war. With the capture of the Messines ridge, the Allies were confident they could clear a path all the way down to Passchendaele, and capture the Belgian coast up the Dutch border.

AUTHORS, POETS, and dramatists - from Ireland, Canada, and the USA - will read from their work at the July Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, next week.

Breaffy GAA Club will hold a special mass for support tomorrow evening, Wednesday, July 5 at 9.30pm for missing clubman David Gavin. David got into diffuculty swimming in the Candian provience of British Columbia on Friday afternoon last. Despite searches he has yet to be located. Members of his family travlled to Canada over the weekend.

Week III

Week II

n Galway next month will see a dozen female scientists from around the west of Ireland give presentations on their research on the streets of the city.

Apart from overcrowding and disease, the biggest problem in many of the workhouses was the behaviour of young women. The women, who perhaps had been brought there as children, were now adolescent, many of them unruly and wild. They tended to be the most troublesome, involved in fighting and, on occasions, rioting. Their behaviour resulted from boredom. While males could be employed breaking stones, or farm work, there were not enough jobs for females, and no effort made to educate them or train them in any skill. By June 1850 in the Mountbellew workhouse, Co Galway, females made up 60 per cent of the inmate population. Three hundred and eighty two were adult; while 199 were aged between nine and 15 years.